The armies of other nations have allowed gays to serve openly in the military. The reason they could afford to do this is simple: they could allow homosexuals to serve in their military because we didn’t allow them to serve in ours.

They knew they could count on the strength, might, power, and cohesion of the U.S. military to intervene whenever and wherever necessary to pull their fannies out of the fire and squash the forces of tyranny wherever they raised their ugly heads around the world.

Those days are now gone. We will no longer be able to bail out these other emasculated armies because ours will now be feminized and neutered beyond repair, and there is no one left to bail us out. We have been permanently weakened as a military and as a nation by these misguided and treasonous Republican senators, and the world is now a more dangerous place for us all.

As a member of the British Armed Forces, I just like to say that our "emasculated" forces just love it when your attempts to "pull our fannies out of the fire" result in you dropping "the strength, might, power, and cohesion of the U.S. military" on OUR FUCKING TROOPS. AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN YOU MORONS ACCIDENTALLY KILL THE WRONG PEOPLE, I THINK HAVING GAYS IN YOUR FORCES IS THE LEAST OF YOUR FUCKING PROBLEMS!!!

I'm pretty sure the Israeli army, which allows women and gays to serve, is still pretty badass.

And I really take exception with this "feminized and neutered beyond repair" stereotype, as if every gay person is a limp-wristed, effeminate pansy who's so wussy that he'd scream like a girl, drop his rifle and run the other way if he saw enemy troops.

And as I said before, if all our enemies are as homophobic as American fundies are, then they'd be afraid to attack us for fear the gheys in our military might capture them, find them attractive, and start coming on to them.

"The reason they could afford to do this is simple: they could allow homosexuals to serve in their military because we didn’t allow them to serve in ours."

o_O What?

"They knew they could count on the strength, might, power, and cohesion of the U.S. military to intervene whenever and wherever necessary to pull their fannies out of the fire and squash the forces of tyranny wherever they raised their ugly heads around the world."

Oh you're going the "all gay guys are pansies" route. Rob Halford would like a word with you.

"The reason they could afford to do this is simple: they could allow homosexuals to serve in their military because we didn’t allow them to serve in ours."

o_O What?

"They knew they could count on the strength, might, power, and cohesion of the U.S. military to intervene whenever and wherever necessary to pull their fannies out of the fire and squash the forces of tyranny wherever they raised their ugly heads around the world."

Oh you're going the "all gay guys are pansies" route. Rob Halford would like a word with you.

(pic of Rob Halfold, looking badass)

....and Alexander The Great...those Gangsta punks on the DL...and the Spartans...those big, hulking, masculine, blue-collar good-ol'-boy BEARS who would eat you for breakfast....

"They knew they could count on the strength, might, power, and cohesion of the U.S. military to intervene whenever and wherever necessary to pull their fannies out of the fire and squash the forces of tyranny wherever they raised their ugly heads around the world."

lmfao, here's a little protip for you, Bry: The rest of the world usually hates it when we play "Team America: World Police".

"We will no longer be able to bail out these other emasculated armies because ours will now be feminized and neutered beyond repair, and there is no one left to bail us out."

"The armies of other nations have allowed gays to serve openly in the military. The reason they could afford to do this is simple: they could allow homosexuals to serve in their military because we didn’t allow them to serve in ours."

Say what?

"They knew they could count on the strength, might, power, and cohesion of the U.S. military to intervene whenever and wherever necessary to pull their fannies out of the fire and squash the forces of tyranny wherever they raised their ugly heads around the world."

Yes. I'm sure that's exactly what they were thinking.

"Those days are now gone."

Much like your mind it would seem.

"We will no longer be able to bail out these other emasculated armies because ours will now be feminized and neutered beyond repair, and there is no one left to bail us out."

Weren't people like you saying the same fucking thing when women started serving in the field rather than on base in an office?

"We have been permanently weakened as a military and as a nation by these misguided and treasonous Republican senators, and the world is now a more dangerous place for us all."

That's what happens when we let people like you run loose unsupervised.

??? I just don't get this. Why are these people arguing that our military is going to be ineffective because of gays, when gays have been serving for the past 17 years since DADT was implemented? I mean, the gays are already in the military, so allowing them to be open about their sexuality will not ruin the military's effectiveness any. If anything, it will just let servicemembers know who not to bother asking out on a date.

Wait. Every time we've engaged in a foreign war in my lifetime (38 years now), we've wanted other countries to join us so that we wouldn't go it alone, so to speak. That's them bailing us out, not the other way around.

And there have undoubtedly been gay people who've wanted to serve but chose not to because of either DADT or the prior outright ban on them, thus keeping otherwise qualified soldiers out of the army etc. So how could this be anything short of a tool to help improve enlistment numbers?